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Date:      Thu, 19 Sep 2002 23:23:57 -0700 (PDT)
From:      Julian Elischer <julian@elischer.org>
To:        "M. Warner Losh" <imp@bsdimp.com>
Cc:        eischen@pcnet1.pcnet.com, marcus@marcuscom.com, current@FreeBSD.ORG
Subject:   Re: mozilla busted?
Message-ID:  <Pine.BSF.4.21.0209192322220.16925-100000@InterJet.elischer.org>
In-Reply-To: <20020919.220431.18410376.imp@bsdimp.com>

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On Thu, 19 Sep 2002, M. Warner Losh wrote:

> In message: <Pine.GSO.4.10.10209192356140.2162-100000@pcnet1.pcnet.com>
>             Daniel Eischen <eischen@pcnet1.pcnet.com> writes:
> : On Thu, 19 Sep 2002, M. Warner Losh wrote:
> : I think it does since it's a kernel ABI breakage in ucontext_t's
> : and sigreturn().  I think we either need to reformat the ucontext_t
> : in some way that is compatible with the old format, or make a
> : new sigreturn() using the current one for compatibility.  It's
> : a shame 'cause it's only broken for i386, not the other archs.
> 
> I think that would be an excellent idea.  I think that there are
> enough libc_r applications for 4.x that we need to retain binary
> compatibility at this level.  Otherwise we're going to be raked over
> the coals.

That's the plan...  uh, the change, not the hot coals.


> 
> Warner
> 


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